The Big One
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Actor: Chip Carter, Dan Burns, Elaine Bly, Jim Czarnecki, Robert DornanBrand: Buena Vista Home Video
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 91 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-09-28
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Miramax Home Entertainment
DVD Reviews of The Big One
DVD Review: Moore is not much to watch as it ages
Summary: 2 Stars
Moore movies are ok to see one time. After that...it's at a garade sale and you end up giving it to Goodwill.DVD Review: Anything Michael Moore makes is worth seeing
Summary: 3 Stars
Well after seeing Bowling for columbine and Fahrenheit 9/11 I thought Michael Moore was funny and should run for president. I watched sicko and found it very boring and felt like i already knew having been raised in the United Kingdom that the US health care system was expensive and for a country that allows citizens to own guns they should also allow them to get medical attention for the gun shot wons. Sicko was interesting not funny or as entertaining though, it just made me want to live in another country. So i thought let me watch all Michael Moore's movies. Roger and Me was sadly still relevant after its release in 1989 but was funny and very good for his first film. Canadian Bacon was a funny John candy movie which made fun of politics but is PG. And the awful Truth tv series is like mini documentary's but the movies are better. AS for the Big One I found it funny however it was a bit random and just about how bad corporations are. Maybe if it was done today it would deal with Walmart and congress. It just seemed that Michael Moore was on a book tour, garbed a camcorder and asked random people about corporations. Still its not bad to watch once, its alright. But try to see it for free Roger and me was better. Not to mention better quality as it was filmed with 35 mm and Michael Moore spent everything to make it to try to save his town. Everyone should watch Roger and me, Bowling for columbine, and Fahrenheit 911 If you love those films and want more Moore then see this movie. If those weren't your thing then this won't be either since those are better. It dose deal layoffs. When company's make more money they fire workers to save more money, which just said 30min of the film for you. then theres 15 min of Moore telling Nike that the factory's that make the shoes are sweat shops and that those jobs should go to Americans and the chairman just says oh I don't know Moore doesn't show prof only a video of Americans who want to make shoes and thats it. And there is also the thing about company's telling workers not to speak to him. So basically only for die heart Moore fans and try to watch for really cheep. the big one is not Moore's best one its is only an alright one. DVD Review: Doesn't compare to his other films, but still interesting.
Summary: 4 Stars
There wasn't much point to this film, but Moore's antics and opinions are entertaining as usual. The subject of this documentary is basically the downsizing of multi-million dollar corporations and shipping work overseas.DVD Review: The Big One: Michael Moore's Crusade against Corporate America
Summary: 5 Stars
G'D bless you Michael Moore for your crusades not only in the books you have written but also for your doccumentary movies to safeguard the working man blue collar workers. The Big One is depressing and funny at the same time. His political satire and savy humour helps you deal with the horrible reality of the coruption in government and in corporations in america. It is about time someone stood up to the corruption of the ceos and corporations. G'D gave michael moore the heart and the guts to go out there and fight the good fight not only for faith but also for justice. DVD Review: Cheap Trick Fans will like the Interview with our favorite 'Trickster, Richard V. Nielsen, at his home in Rockford, Ill.!
Summary: 4 Stars
Michael Moore strikes at the Establishmewnt again!
Moore's best is still his first, 'Roger And Me,,
but this is the next best. Imagine my surprise as
few yrs., agao when a friend, who also votes Third
Party, lent me the VHS of this and found out that
Moore is also a Cheap Trick fan. Nielsen's picture
with Moore is even on the back of the DVD sleeve!
A good effort, though Moore's somewhat leftist oc-
cational leaniings may put some Third Party types
off...The far Middle strikes back, again! And Rock
on Rick Nielsen!
Description of The Big One
Outrageously entertaining and widely acclaimed, THE BIG ONE marks the return of America's favorite corporate avenger, Academy Award(R) winner Michael Moore (BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE, Best Feature Documentary, 2002; ROGER & ME). Armed only with a camera and a sharp sense of humor, Moore is back in the nation's heartland and searching for an executive -- any executive -- who will respond to one tough question: If Fortune 500 companies are posting record-setting profits, why do they continue laying off thousands of workers? Looking out for the little guy with plenty of laughs along the way, Moore's howlingly funny crusade has resulted in a crowd-pleasing motion picture that's big entertainment fun!A brazen mixture of stand-up comedy, political commentary, CEO confrontations, and shenanigans with Random House tour escorts, Michael Moore's second foray into dark docucomedy after Roger and Me follows his Midwest book tour to promote Downsize This. One of his Milwaukee tour escorts explains that medium-sized cities in the Midwest tend not to attract tours by the self-important celebrities of the Coasts; instead, they attract "more thoughtful authors like Michael." His kind of thoughtfulness evokes both laughter at, and disgust with, corporate America. To be sure, there is a certain naivet? in Moore's proworker take on corporate and political America--his half-serious plan for a Nike shoe factory in Flint, Michigan, makes as much business sense as coal mining on Maui--but he gives voice to well-reasoned arguments that have most easily gotten lost amid the Clinton-era boom's corporate downsizing and reliance on "temporary" employees.
In cities like Des Moines, Minneapolis, St. Louis, and Portland, The Big One juxtaposes both Moore's lighthearted-sounding but deeply biting humor speaking before bookstore patrons and painful-to-watch confrontations with security personnel at companies such as Procter & Gamble and PayDay. (For future targets of Moore's style of journalism, take note of Nike CEO Phil Knight's fairly effective approach as Moore calls him to task on Nike's Indonesian labor.) Moore speaks clandestinely with Borders employees organizing a union; a woman laid off from Ford attends Moore's Rockford, Illinois, bookstore visit the same day. Though slow in spots, frustrating if not depressing in others, it's intensely funny the rest of the time. The Big One is fundamental viewing. --Erik Macki
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